Two are killed in truck accident

A 23-year-old Kingsville man driving a truck with a crane attached was killed early Thursday near Zapata when he struck a tractor trailer, Texas Department of Public Safety officials said.

Daniel Lee Alvarez was driving west on State Highway 16 about seven miles east of Zapata early Thursday when his truck ran off the edge of the road, according to a DPS accident report. Alvarez overcorrected while driving back onto the road, causing the truck to go into a skid, the report said.

As the truck began to roll over, it crashed into the cab of a tractor trailer driving west, according to the report.

Alvarez was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the second truck, 29-year-old Adolfo Perez, Jr. of Rio Grande City was taken to a local hospital where he later died.